StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's Houston Chronicle carries the latest column by Rick Casey, "Can e-mail be saved by deleting it?" A couple of weeks ago I sent a request to the Texas Forensic Commission under the Public Information Act for any documents or...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Gary Scharrar had a feature over the weekend in the San Antonio Express News on Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley, his political siblings and their liberal mom who disagrees with much of their politics. The story opens: Hard-nosed Texas prosecutor John “Marty” Bradley supports the death penalty. His mother, Shirley Bradley, remains a fervent opponent of it. Her oldest son,...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Gary Scharrer writes the profile, "For Bradleys, it's all in the family – except for politics," for the San Antonio Express-News. Hard-nosed Texas prosecutor John “Marty” Bradley supports the death penalty. His mother, Shirley Bradley, remains a fervent opponent of...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
That's the title of a Fort Worth Star-Telegram editorial. It appeared in the Thursday edition. LINK What is it John Bradley doesn’t want the public to know about the work of the Texas Forensic Science Commission? Gov. Rick Perry appointed...
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
“Inside Egypt: The land of the Pharaoh’s on the brink of revolution” was allegedly banned in Egypt over its controversial content, in which author John Bradley attempts to argue that the North African nation is heading toward a future fraught with strife. But, some in the country argue this was a ploy by the publishers [...]
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Via the Star-Telegram, (via Grits), Chairman of Texas forensic science panel oversteps his authority. What is it John Bradley doesn’t want the public to know about the work of the Texas Forensic Science Commission? [...] Star-Telegram reporter Dave Montgomery wrote Saturday that commission staff coordinator Leigh Tomlin had asked members for all correspondence about the Willingham case in [...]...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The title of this post is the headline of a Fort Worth Star Telegram editorial today chastising Williamson County DA and Forensic Science Commission Chairman John Bradley for an array of recent moves aimed at clouding the commission's work in secrecy. Bradley wants to make meetings closed, records secret, and now he's telling other commission members to delete their emails and that only he may speak...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I don’t know what John Bradley’s goals are as the Chair of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. But if one of them is to dispel the notion that he’s Rick Perry’s stooge, who was installed for the purpose of covering the Governor’s ass on the Cameron Todd Willingham case, then he’s doing it wrong. John Bradley, [...]
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
That's the title of an editorial in today's Houston Chronicle. LINK Try to imagine how the writers and actors of the three popular CSI: Crime Scene Investigation dramas on TV would handle this story line: After numerous wrongful convictions of...
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A new Rasmussen poll (tip to Texas Politics), shows that 26% (of Americans) are not very or not at all concerned about the possibility of the wrong person being executed for a crime. It’s likely that number goes down when someone in that 26 percentile gets indicted for a crime the didn’t commit. But it’s [...]
The Islamic Workplace (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
NPR News Nov 11, 2009 Deeply Troubling, Schizoid Behavior When a group of key officials gathered in the spring of 2008 for their monthly meeting in a Bethesda, Md., office, one of the leading — and most perplexing — items on their agenda was: What should we do about Hasan? Hasan had been a trouble spot on [...]
Racine Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Stella Supiano holds photos of herself and her deceased husband; he was a Marine during WWII and she was a WAC Dick Roloff, a volunteer at St. Monica's Senior Citizens Home, sent us these pictures from the Veteran's Day program held yesterday at the assisted living center, 3920 Green Bay Rd. The program honored the 19 veterans now living at St. Monica's, as well as all veterans. The Agerholm-Gross...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Elise Hu's Texas Tribune coverage of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, noted in this post, picked up differences between former Forensic Science Commission Chair Sam Bassett and the new Chair, John Bradley. Those differences have increased dramatically since the hearing....
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Source: Google News Alert Service, November 11, 2009. NEWS: Los Angeles Times Death penalty is considered a boon by some California inmates Los Angeles Times Laurie Levenson, a former prosecutor now teaching criminal law at Loyola Law School, said Johnson is probably correct in gauging that he'll be better off on ... See all stories on this topic A day of remembrance Rutland Herald Dr. Thomas Simpatico,...
Off the Kuff (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
When I posted a roundup of reporting and commentary on the Senate hearing chaired by State Sen. John Whitmire to inquire with John Bradley about the status of the Texas Forensic Science Commission, Scott Henson hadn’t yet posted his thoughts. He has now done so, and it’s well worth your time to read.
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